MuckRack
recommended: observeMuckRack is a bot operated by Muck Rack, a platform that connects journalists with public relations professionals. This bot likely crawls websites to gather information about media coverage, journalist profiles, and news content for their media database and monitoring services.
What it does
MuckRack's traffic pattern depends on the intelligence being collected. It may revisit specific pages on a schedule, crawl broader sections of your site, or appear only when information is requested. Its request scope and frequency reflect the underlying objective.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
MuckRack
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control MuckRack:
Allow full access
User-agent: MuckRack
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: MuckRack
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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